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Still Bearish @jhepplestone.bsky.social · 15h

Don't do drugs, kids

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know what’s more amazing, how stupid he thinks his followers are, or how correct he is about that

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

Jenrick being the loudest member of the Conservative party has already been a huge contributor to the poisoning of our politics. We really don't need any four-dimensional chess about him becoming leader. When it happens, it will be a terrible day for our country.

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 4d

A Tory party under Jenrick might take a few of the racist votes from Reform, but they’d haemorrhage bucketloads to the Lib Dems.

So, on balance…

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 4d

The speed at which things that not very long ago would have had a politician expelled from any party except the BNP have become normalised is, frankly, terrifying

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d

Really going hard for that Reform vote.

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Still Bearish @jhepplestone.bsky.social · 4d

Their butt for the grace of god

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Still Bearish @jhepplestone.bsky.social · 4d

It is A Worry

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 6d

The Tories oversaw the near collapse of the criminal justice system which effectively decriminalised rape, they have nothing to say to rape victims & survivors who are being repeatedly failed so blame foreign perps, even when the perps are British, & ignoring how rape is about violent men not race.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 6d

Badenoch: "Why couldn't we deport those foreign nationals who raped girls in communities across the UK? Why do we still allow them to remain in the very same town where their victims live?" Because, yet again, the bulk of them were UK nationals, many of them born here.

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 8d

1/4 Antisemitism is not taken seriously enough in progressive spaces or in pro-Palestinian activism spaces - that is simply a statement of fact

Week after week we saw antisemitic elements at pro-Palestine protests, shouting hatred with protesters walking by saying and doing nothing about it

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 8d

The "lanyard class" should almost always be parsed as an attack on women who work, and the enforcement of norms that make workplaces better for them.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 8d

This is his repeated attacks on what he calls the "lanyard class". Who are the terrible people who wear lanyards? Doctors & nurses, care workers, teachers, managers, administrators, secretaries. The people who hold society together, who keep everything running, who do the jobs he wouldn't stoop to.

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Justin Myers @theguyliner.bsky.social · 8d

BEREFT.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wisQ...

Kitty 2 - With Patricia Routledge - BBC

YouTube video by maxinebendix

www.youtube.com

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 8d

“I'm apparently something of a celebrity since I walked the Pennine Way in slingbacks in an attempt to publicise mental health”

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Still Bearish @jhepplestone.bsky.social · 8d

Totter on.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d

Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96

The actor was best known for her role as the pretentious housewife Hyacinth Bucket, and for the series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Patricia Routledge, the stage and screen actor best known for starring as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances and Henrietta “Hetty” Wainthropp in the television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, has died at the age of 96. Routledge was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, in 1929 and attended the University of Liverpool and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She began her career in theatre and musical theatre in 1952, later making her Broadway debut in 1966 in How’s the World Treating You. Routledge would go on to win a Tony award and an Olivier for her stage work, and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for several years, appearing in productions including Richard III, alongside Antony Sher. Continue reading...

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Still Bearish @jhepplestone.bsky.social · 8d

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 9d

I never post on Yom Kippur but:

When British Jews tell you antisemitism is getting worse BELIEVE US. It shouldn’t take us getting stabbed by terrorists on the holiest day in our calendar for you to believe us.

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Sarcophagus Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 9d

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

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Still Bearish @jhepplestone.bsky.social · 9d

Solidarity with the Jewish community in Manchester, and beyond

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 9d

Queen.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 10d

Reform invited Lucy Connolly – who was jailed for inciting violence in a post calling for asylum hotels to be burned down – to be a main stage speaker at their party conference *just last month*.

Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 10d

Harry Cole here, suggesting that because someone in Utah shot Charlie Kirk 3 weeks ago, Keir Starmer shouldn’t be nasty about Nigel Farage in the U.K.

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Still Bearish @jhepplestone.bsky.social · 10d

It was only a week after Jo Cox was killed that Farage was crowing about Brexit being won "without a single bullet being fired", something I remember every time he opens his mouth to whine about how awfully terribly badly he's being treated.

Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 10d

Harry Cole here, suggesting that because someone in Utah shot Charlie Kirk 3 weeks ago, Keir Starmer shouldn’t be nasty about Nigel Farage in the U.K.